Ptolemy's Gate discussion

I started to draw a summoning circle to summon a demon....

And the a gust of wind from an open window blew the dried rosemary and thyme away

And the djinn started doing the Irish step dance ^.^

Then the most weirdest thing happened

The Other Place was super hot and I cried out,"can someone crank the heat down?!" (lol)

And then I smacked head first into bartimaeus and we both toppled over and ended up at Nathan's place.

Nathan gaped at us and I swear, his fish face was classic! Even Leonardo de Vinci would've had a hard time painting it!
"But wait..wha--argh!"
I threw a stink bomb in the room then grabbed bartimaeus by the arm and dragged him outside by jumping out the window.
(warning: Kids please do not try this at home due to the damage of a possible broken bone or a concussion. )

(if u get stitches, what color r they going to b in?) ^.^


"you sure?" inquired bartimaeus.
I shot him a glare." would you like to get trapped in someone's toilet for the rest of your life? And that is a very long time. I can always seal off the exists so tht u'll b stuck there forever." I smiled sweetly up at him, eyes of innocence.
He shot me a death glare to which I replied with one of my own.

(yeah I do write stories and I wish to be published someday too! )


"I'm your wife's friend whose come to beat you up because you got coal in ur stocking for christmas!" I said happily.
I felt bartimaeus shaking with silent laughter.
"if you drop me Bart, then I'm going to seriously whether I should just seal u in a toilet or a computer somehow. Think of all the surprised children when they turn on the computer and they see a djinn in it!"
A red ball of light came from jabor's hand.
We swerved to the right, nearly missing it.

(haha see! Ur getting funny too!)


"kitty as in the human?"
"no I mean kitty as the mountain lion," I said sarcastically.
"so how is kitty these days?"
"alive."
We swerved to the left arroy missing a spire from a church.
"can't u just turn them into flowers or something?"
"like they would make pretty flowers," muttered bartimaeus.
"you're probably right. Rats are probably closer to looking like them."
I heard a few colorful swears behind us.

"Ewww! Gross!" bartimaeus drew back with disgust.
I just sipped water from a nearby water fountain and cleaned myself up as I watched in amusement. Bartimaeus was doing something that look like an Irish jig. "hey hav u ever tried out as a dancer? U'll look kinda cute in a tutu and ballet shoes."
He glared at me then washed himself off, changing into a human boy in the proccess. "You still haven't answered my question yet."
"And you hadn't given me a candy bar yet." I replied.
"What?!?!"
"Exactly." I hopped off the fountain and walked away with bartimaeus at my heels.

"up here u dimwitted lot!" called a snickering voice.
We turned to glare at Jabor and farquarl.
"hey bartimaeus! Is tht ur girlfriend?" called down farquarl.
Before they could laugh, I hit them with a well aimed throw. The rock flew high and hit him on he head.
"ha ha! Who's laughing now?!"

"heya kitty! How's life treating you these days?"
Kitty smiled and said sweetly," good, how r u bartimaeus?"
They completely forgot me, which was good. I turned on my heels and walked away casually before breaking into a run.

"umm...how am i supposed to know! In a sewer!!??!! I don't know missy! I'm just a messenger imp! I'm not a map! Why don't u go and look for a place while I hold off the djinn? "
I smiled at him and then ran. I could only think of one place. Well mayb two. The forest where I knew it like the back of my hand or Nathaniel's house protected with its many wards. I came to a decision and ran to his house. There, I looked wildly around for a tree. Finding one, I scaled it easily and hid in the leafy branches. Afterall, almost no one ever looks up. Now the wards will do the rest.

"hey u! Get down here! " screamed kitty in a shrill voice.
I winced at her voice."nah, I like my tree. Why don't you come up?"
"don't get cocky with me u wrenched girl!"
I batted my eyelashes innocently. "I'm a nice little girl. I just prefer to be up here than down there. Would you like to join me for a cup of tea?"
Bartimaeus looked at me incredulously. "ur crazy!"
I bowed my."thank you very much. After all normal is just boring! Everyone is weird in their own special way and u should b proud of it."
Their mouths had gone slack.
"hey does anyone hav a video camera?" I called out with an air of flippancy. " this should go on YouTube!"

"so hey what's up?" I said perching precariously on the branch.
"none of ur business," said bartimaeus. He spat at me for extra measure.
I grinned."nope wrong answer. The sky, that's what's up."
They looked at me in disgust.
"what?!" I demanded.
Nathaniel sighed."well since I'm the host here, then I guess u should all come in. Come kitty, I'll fix tht nose of yours."
Kitty was holding her nose."I'm bleeding and it's all her fault!!" she pointed at me with an accused finger.
"not really mine. Somebody," I said looking meaningfully at bartimaeus."fired a detonation at me. He was only helping u, so it's his fault since he is ur faithful servant."
"he's not my servant!" cried kitty in outrage.
"whatever." I waved my hand airily and jumped from the branch into Nathaniel's house.

"shut up!" screamed kitty.
"shut up is not in my vocab. Sorry to disappoint you."
She smacked me but I ducked out of her reach.
"too slow. Faster honey." I snickered and she swung again.
This time she got my neck.
Shock ran through me. It quickly disappeared and I lunged at her. We twisted on the floor landing punches and flailing arms.
Bartimaeus tried to help but he second thought about it when he got kicked the head.
Nathaniel tried to help too but with no prevail. He looked a little frightened and was fretting.
We landed several punches before we stopped and drew back.
"call a truce?" piped up Nathaniel hopfully.
We stared at each other waiting for the other person to give in first. Finally we both gave in at the same time.
"truce," we chorused. Then turned back to glaring at each other.
Nathaniel relaxed visibly. He released bartimaeus from his hold. Bartimaeus smiled."very much appreciated. Never felt any better."
"yeah right," I muttered under my breath.

I blinked innocently at him."I hav no clue on what your talking about."
He snorted."Don't play dumb with me, girl."
I sniffed."I do hav a name u know."
"and it's..?"
"I'm not going to tell you it. I'm not as dumb as you are, you bucket of bolts."
Farqual looked like he could rip my throat out. " shut up."
"make me."
He growled. "maybe I will."
"and maybe I wont let you. "
"careful human."
"careful djinni, you don't know what your doing."
"I wouldn't go to far human."
"neither should you, djinni."
Then a war of colorful words and challenges breaks out. (lol)

(oh and here's another warning: kids do not try summoning a djinni then start niche ring with it. If you wake up all of a sudden as a frog or worse, well then, I did warn you. At least you know who to blame it on. ^.^ )

" now, girl." he said with a very too patient voice."You will tell me how you just did that."
"why?" I said with a tone of boredom.
"Because if u don't then I swear I'm going to force it out of u."
I chuckled."it's funny how people always use torture. Doesn't that just make that person more stubborn to not to because then they see the value of the secret they hold?" I'd didnt wait for an answer. "Anyway, I'm not here to fight sadly. I'm here to help. I heard that there was a djinni on the loose that can only be spotted on the seventh plane."
Nathaniel blanched."How did u hear about tht?"
"oh please." I scoffed. "Nothing is secretive these days."
Kitty snarled at me."We don't need ur help. We hav bartimaeus and a hundred more at our will."
"so they are servants to u," I mused out loud.
"they're not! They're just our...companions for now."
"companions that do all the work for you."
"No! They simply--"
I cut kitty off,"u're fighting a losing battle. I declar myself the winner of this fight!"

(lol, a very long day. ^.^)

We summoned bartimaeus and started peppering him with questions. He just answered them with an air of boredom before yawning.
"Look if u don't need me then i would really appreciate it if u'd just let me go. You summoned me in the middle of my beauty rest."
"Really," i scoffed,"because you don't look any prettier than before."
Kitty just wrinkled her nose at me."ignore her. She's just to proud to admit that you are the handsomest djinni ever."
"Don't flatter me," said Bartimaeus airily.
"so we basically have a lose djinni on the loose that can only be spotted on the seventh plane." explained Nathaniel. " Or it might be an afrit, we don't know for certain. What we do know is that it likes to eat pizza."
"excuse me?" i said. "But did u just say pizza? Are you sure that it isn't just a person who likes to eat pizza or maybe takeout? Throw in cakes in there too while your at it. "
he glared at me."This isn't a joke! i really do mean it! Got any ideas on how to catch it?'
"yeah," i said. These kind of situation were my specialty,"Why don't we just trap it?"

Kitty just gave me a sour look before saying," So how do we trap it oh miss-I'm-so-smart-and-unbeatable?"
I furrowed my brows. " I neve said tht I was unbeatable but I do like the smart part."
"You ignorant, cocky fool," she muttered darkly.
"Excuse me? I'm not a fool, maybe too cocky and smart for my own good but not a fool. Well I was thinking of luring it to someplace...like a forest clearing or something. A large place where we can move around but also hide if need be. And the place has to be far from people so they don't accidentally get hurt. Also the place needs to have the right resources for our trap to work. I still don't understand why it likes pizza though. We could lure it into the place then we can ambush it. Also rig the place with binding spells and such so it doesn't escape. Okay so who wants to be bait?" I said at last looking at all of them with a mischievous idea. That person would pretend to be a wandering pizza boy or girl. The golem would then follow tht wandering person. Tht person might have to run to avoid getting eaten by the golem too. Then tht person is to run into the place where we would ambush the golem.

We gave Nathaniel a push towards the entrance when we landed.
" don't worry Nath. We can always patch you up if you get damaged. It won't hurt...much." I gave him a wink.
" yeah very reassuring. I'll keep that in mind." He walked into the store with as much dignity as a beat up person can muster. he returned a minute later with a few boxes of pizza. Then we were off to the forest.

( yeah srry about the golem thingy. I was reading the golem's eye so i got mixed up. XD )

( yeah i think you might be right!! lol, I'm still on the prologue! i seriously hav to start reading it some more!! XD )

Kitty and the others hid the shrubs. I scaled a tree hoping to get a better shot from up here, and i also doubted that the djinni was going to look up. Also, i had the advantage of a bird's eye view from up here. Bartimaeus was helping Nathaniel with the incantations. Yeah like that's going to do much. Queezle was doing some scouting as a raven.

The trees around the clearing was parting slowly. Nathaniel was frozen with horror and he was flabbergasted. Then the djinni appeared with a roaring, savage triumph that shook the forest floor.

(lol, a chicken with its head cut off, ^.^ lmao.)



Swears were common in battle so I wasn't surprised when at Nathaniel said something un...intelligent. Then a series of insults erupted from the commotion.
Now wouldn't it be great if I had a bow and arrows? The weapons appeared as soon as I'd thought about it. I grabbed it and nocked a flaming red arrow. I wrapped and enchanted the arrow with many spells and for better damage, attached some silver and iron. Didn't know if that was going to help but it was better than nothing. I aimed then fired. The arrow flew into the midst and hid the djinni in one of it's eyes. Bullseye, no pun intended. It was in the form of a bull too.
The djinni reared back in pain and Bartimaeus flew at it with lightning speed. The djinni suddenly changed into a hydra and bartimaeus stopped short. The hydra snapped at him and they started a game of tag. Or in this case, flee or die.
Queezle decided to join in on the battle too in the form of a panther with midnight black fur.
Kitty tried to calm Nathaniel down, if that was even possible. Then surprisingly...not, Nathaniel fainted. So much for being a hero and our live bait. He looked like a corpse. All white and non-moving.
I snickered then started firing arrows until I ran out.

Well even if Nat did protest, we probably needed a doctor or wait till weeks before we understood him.
The Rogue Dijinni had transformed to a little boy. He was spitting out curses and making colorful signs at us. So I only did what anyone else would do, I stuck a bar of soap in his mouth.
Kitty looked at me with horror. "You monster!" she wailed. "Soap doesnt taste good!"
"Don't worry, it's strawberry scented."
Queezle and Bart picked the Rogue Djinni up as easy as a person carrying a feather.
"Wthe soud eh sttate?" said Nat.
"what Srry. I can't understand u. Where should we start to look for his master?" I asked.
Nat facedpalmed his head. "Ieh hust sahde theaht."
"Srry, u gotta speak up."
"How about we wait? If his master doesnt summon him by then, well we can wait another day then." reasoned Queezle.
"But can't we just ask him?" asked kitty.
"Umm.." Bart flushed. "I might've accidentally knocked him out."
We all looked at the unconscious Rogue Djinni.
"Of course Bart. You just had to knock out our only lead. But then, I don't really know why that's a surprise."
Bart ignored me," ok so I guess we're pitching camp here for the night if we want. I don't feel like being cooped up inside some magician's house. No offense Nat."
"I love camping," said kitty sarcastically.
"Suck it up sister. We aren't here on your behalf." I walked away to gather up firewood.

"What?! They won't survive without some protection!"
I raised an eyebrow at Bart. "I'm actually more afraid of kitty doing some real damage to Nat." I guestured vaguely in her direction.
Kitty was trying to wake up Nat with no success. She tried dumping cold water on him too.
"oi kitty!" I hollered.
She swung her head to look at me with an annoyed look."Can't u see tht I'm trying to revive someone here?!"
"well yes and no. I think tht when he's woken up, he might hav hypothermia."
Kitty threw her bucket at me which didn't even come close to where I was. She got up and started to "make" a fire.
"um Bart. Can u go and help her? I'm afraid she might burn herself that is if she even gets the fire started."
Bart sighed. "we'll talk about this later then."
"that is if we even survive without us burning to death." I guestured at kitty as she tried desperately to stop a ribbon of fire from spreading.
Bart flew off and I walked back to camp.
"Here kitty. U'll need better firewood than what u hav there." I dropped the lot beside her and walked off to hunt for our dinner.

(bye. Thanks for correcting my spelling too. ^.^ )


"Up here," said a voice.
We turned to see Bart in the form of a sleek black cat. He came down from the tree and began to lick his paw.
I couldn't hold bac the giggles. I bursted out until they turned to roars of laughter.
"what's so funny," demanded kitty.
"it's just that-haha--I-I've never though to see Bart in a cat form and looking so ...dignified. I mean, can u imagine Bartimaeus, the high, mighty, brave, fearless, all power bartimaeus in the form on a kitten! A sweet little kitten!"
Bart stopped licking his paws and extended his claws. "meow."
I laughed some more and kitty joined in to. Even Queezle and Nat joined in.
"okay," I said getting up. I wiped tears from my eyes and breathed in and out slowly. "okay. We should all eat and then go to sleep. We hav enough incantations and spells around us so we don't hav to be on guard. Rogue djinni there is all knocked out, thanks to bartimaeus, and the sliver netting should be enough. But I still want Bart to put some incantations around it so just in case of it breaks out somehow and someone should be on alert if it's master summons him. Wake all of us up and we'll plan from there i guess."

Bart at least had the sense to look sheepish. "Well, erm....ah-"
"Ou stop stalling! " I picked him up by his furry little ear and bellowed. "WHY ARE THEY IN PRISON!!!!"
Bart shrank back."Ow!! My ears are ringing and they hurt!"
"Stop whining or I will set fire on you! Better yet, hmm, I wonder what animals eat bats."
Bart paled (if that was even possible or a bat). "Well would you believe that I accidently put them in jail?"
"You WHAT!?!?!" I shook him hard. "I'm going to shake you until you see twelve suns!"
"Oh please don't!" wailed Bart.
The rogue djinni snickered. "Oh look at the all powerful Bart getting beat up by a human. And it's a girl too!" she howled with laughter.
I knocked bart's head."Hello? Anyone in there? Knock knock."
"Who's there?" answered the rogue djinni.
"Me."
"Me who?"
"Me who's going to throw u into a bucket of melted silver if u don't shut up."
The rogue djinni snapped her mouth shut with a snap.
"Okay Bart. I want to hear what u have to say in the next five minutes before I seal u into a glue bottle full of super glue. And I'll be sure to tie a weight onto it so tht u sink and drown in glue!"
"Is the glue strawberry scented too?"
I started shaking Bart like a baby's rattle.

Kitty's narration:

I swear that if I ever get my hands on that bartimaeus, I'm going to crush him like a bug(that is if it was even possible).
The jail was not a place where you would want to spent a weekend. Trust me when I say this. It was a small cooped up place with gray walls, gray floor, gray bedspreads, and, you guessed it, gray chairs.
Nathaniel was swearing in a corner, which didn't sound like swearing since it sounded more like a baby babbling it's head off.
I still couldn't believe that bartimaeus would betray us like this! And what was that nameless chick doing right at this minute? Summoning an army of imps and rogue djinni? U never knew what would happen when it came to her. That girl was untamed and too...too unnatural.
Nathaniel finally calmed down. His injured mouth had stopped swelling so it wasn't as big as before.
"I wanna strangle Bart." I said.
He grunted and began to pace the cell. "Wish I had my suppmlies suh sat I can sommon Queesle."
I winced. He could still talk and it was better than nothing. It was more understandable. I walked over to him and took his hand. "We'll be okay. They can't keep us in here forever. Then once we're out, we can go and kill Bart together. It'll be fun."
He smiled. "If you say so."

Queezle's narration:

"No, I'm sorry but I can't get you out. At least not right now." I watched as they fumed up.
"What?!" shrieked Nathaniel. "I'm an important man you know! And I have a place in the ministry. (don't know if I spelled it right :D ) and I will call my friends somehow and-"
I shut his mouth by throwing an apple into it. "At least it's not soap. You can thank me later for that." I turned to kitty who was trying to gain contro of her temper. Really, that girl was too sensitive and thick in the head. "Look, I'll talk to Bart and see if I can make this better for you two. Maybe I can convince him to move you to a nicer jail or keep u guys underground or something."
"Don't u dare leave us here," wails kitty. "When I get out I will personal see to it that your trapped in a bottle and thrown into the Thames river."
"Yeah good luck with that." I turned into smoke and left. I heard kitty screaming her head off until the guards came and gave her a dose of sleeping liquid. I had no idea how humans made such a thing without using magic or whatnot. They were a mysterious bunch alright.
I traveled to the forest clearing. Before I reached it, I heard some shouting and colorful words.
Yep, those two were definately arguing again. I just hoped that they had kept a good hold on that rogue djinni. If they didnt, well let's just say that I was going to turn into a very not-pretty kitty. And I meant the animal not Kitty mortal.
I landed in the clearing and turned into a striped tabby cat.
"You little son of a half troll," roared the nameless girl. She threw a rock at Bart to which he sidestepped.
"For starters, I was not born from a troll. And will u stop looking at me like that? You red etiquette lessons, badly I might add." Bart dodged another rock this time bigger.
"Why on earth would anyone in their right mind would cause to prison them! U-u-aargh!"
The nameless girl tackled Bart.
This was going to get ugly if I disnt end this fast. Since they didn't know tht I was here, I had the advantage of surprise. I turned into a red dragon and flew at them and roared the loudest roar tht was possible.
They looked up at me. Their faces mirrored the terror perfectly that I had to chance into my normal form a laugh.

(^.^ it's what people said to other people in the really old, old days. Also used in faerie and such. Lol, I just randomly know these things. A dodo head? Lmao, :D )

But Bart didn't say what he wanted to say because right then, the rogue djinni cursed then shrieked.
"My master is summoning me! Get me out of these bonds! I demand to be-"
"You don't demand anything," said the nameless girl. She released the djinni and hoped onto Bart's back much to my annoyance. Bart had already changed into a small dragon.
"Djinni. Don't you even try to do anything smart. Bart, follow her." they took off while I trailed behind them in a form of a hawk.
The djinni was a pigeon, and we followed it to a worn out warehouse. It looked old and abandoned. Why couldn't it be a happy, cheery manor or someplace nice?

Back to the nameless girl's narration:

I stared at shock at my father. He looked the same as the last time that I saw him. Broad, strong shoulders. A white beard. Callused hands and a strong built frame.
"Hello daughter. Now why would you run away like that? I had missed you terribly."
I wrenched my arms free from the utukku guards. "Yeah, had. Had missed me."
"You were always a tough girl to get a firm grip on. Now why don't you and your friends come inside for a cup of hot cocoa?"
I took a step back. "The last time I came to you, you left me Ina burning building."
Queezle's eyes widened.
"Now my dear. I had no idea that you were in there. I thought that you were outside with your friends."
"And you didn't even send an imp in there to check! You thought that I was outside. I could've died! And that time you made me walk into a daryon's cave except it turned out to be a golem's home. I could've ended up as lunch or a kebab."
"You mustnt pay attention to my daughter," said father to Bart and queezle. "She tends to exaggerate a few things and the stories that she make up are so believable that once you hear it, you will believ it. Truely I don't know where her talent for tht came from."
I snorted. "And what about mother?" I watched in appreciation as father paled. "Yeah, her. Maybe I have to refresh ur memory. The way that u held a knife to her-"
"That's enough." he cut me off sharply.
I wasn't surprised tht he did. I whipped out my dagger and freed the rogue djinni. I tossed him an amulet on a chain. (don't ask how I got it) "Here take this and it'll stop all summons."
The djinni thanked me then disappeared in a puff of smoke.
I knew that my father's anger was what I had to face next.

(thank you. Lol, Barty. ^.^ that's a cut name for him considering that he's a demon and all)

I was feeling a little better now that Bart was helping me out. (And yes I'll admit it, I was really greatful that he was my friend-er maybe companion.) I stood up taller and faced my father.
"So, do you wanna do this the easy or hard way?"
"For what?!" He acted astonished.
"Are you going to let us go now? We still have a certain place to visit all thanks to Bart." Jail, that was our next stop.
Bart looked at me innocently with dragon eyes. Well that is if u could make a face look innocent with blood red sharp scales, long razor sharp teeth, and u get the point.
Father took some time to think. "Well why not, let's try the hard way. I haven't been in aright since I was oh, in 4 or 5 years?"
I scoffed. "Shorter. More like 1 to a year and a half."
He lunged at me and I sidestepped him, letting his force carry him off balance. One thing tht u had to know about me was tht I was light and nibble on my feet. (All thanks to my childhood days of me pulling pranks and such.)
Bart stepped on a utukku guard without even knowing. Well that's what u get for being a dragon. The guard was now officially a pancake of a mess.
I drew out my bow and arrows to fire at the guards. Father was wrestling with queezle in a panther form. He landed a lunch to her gut and she howled in pain.
I fought off a few more guards before joining queezle.
"Queezle, go help Bart! This is family business."
She sprang away to stand my Bart's side.
I toyed with my father for a few minutes before he reached for something behind his back. But my foot was already flying out in front of me to kick the gun from out of his hand. I felt at least two fingers crack from my kick. I threw the gun far away.
Father punched me in the gut, and I dropped to my knees. My weapons dropped from my hand.
He gripped me by my neck and lifted me up. "You were always the troublesome one."
I struggled and the grip around my throat tightened.
He was about to snap my neck when he suddenly froze and fell over, releasing me. I looked up breathing hard and saw Nathaniel.. A bloodied knife was in his hand.
"Oh hey there." I said before I blacked out.

( we're a little violent =D oh well, who cares . We're just having some fun ;D )

(Ikr! Finally Nathaniel is doing something that's useful, besides giving people headaches and he failed his live bait job since he fainted. ^.^ )


Bartimaeus growled and changed into a wolf. "I'm not a softy."
It was funny to watch a wold bartimaeus talk since a wolf's mouth wasn't really made for talking. I laughed which made bartimaeus more annoyed. He finally decided on ptolemy.
"Better?" he muttered.
"Aaw,"whined kitty. "The wolf was funny but now you look kinda cute."
I facepalmed myself. What was I going to do with her? "And before u know it, u'll me marrying a demon or imp." I smirked.
Kitty wrinkled her nose at me. "Where did u grow up? In a sewer?"
"no, in fact I grew up in a manor but spend most of my life in the forest."
"that was a rhetorical question."
" I know and your fire is dieing. Again."
Kitty muttered under her breath and walked away to the fire.
"So does anyone want to raid the pantry with me?" I wasn't surprised when hands shot up probably as fast as the speed of sound. "Okay, nathiel and Bart. Go and find us some food. Make sure that it's edible cause I hav no idea what demons eat. I hav to recover from a massive headache that I received from a certain girl named kitty."

"Fine." I let her go, but I also knew tht she won't leave Barty here alone. Queezle did stay and shrugged. "Thanks, I guess."
"Your welcome."I watched in amusement as Nathaniel carried over a load of food back here with bartimaeus yelling and ordering him about. Huh, I always thought that the magician was supposed to order their demon around. Not the other way around. Oh well, I guess u learn something new everyday.


(Sorry this is so short. My mom just called me downstairs to watch my brother, again unfortunately. +.+ )

"I never promised such a thing!" in truth, I didn't remember if I did. I just needed them for one little teensy weesy thing. Well mayb a lot bigger than tht.
Bart fumed. "Fine! I'll ask queezle if she agrees to this." he swung his scaley neck to face queezle. They chatted softly for a while much to my surprise since I had doubted tht a dragon could talk softly.
"we'll help if u promise to let us go right after,"said queezle.
I nodded. "Of course. I never break my promises."
Barty nodded. "And what is it that we're doing?"

(lmao!)


Queezle and Bart turned into monkeys. They gave me a look tht could've melted an iceberg if there was one. I flashed them a winning smile and giggled.
"U make cute monkeys." I mouthed to them.
They turned their backs on me and scaled a tree.
Fine take my compliment like tht, I thought. I turned to the others and made a huddled group.
"Ok so here's what we'll do."
"Why don't I like the sound of tht," moaned Nathaniel. "If I get a sore mouth again them I'm-"
"Yewh whatever. If u dont faint then things might actually go out according to plan."
He frowned and kitty growled low in her throat. What a cute couple they are, I thought in amusement.
"Ok so here's what we'll do. Bart and queezle will be the monkeys. When xeno goes in to feed them, that's when they tie and pounce on him. No one's going to see them because I told them to lure him into the shadows. Nathaniel if u can cast an invisibility spell then tht be great. They'll need tht cover.They'll load him into a truck and we'll be there to drive it. It's in the parking lot by the way. Ok game on then."

"nothing officer." we replied sweetly in unison.
"I'm just having a fight with my cousin because she took my purse," said kitty.
The officer muttered something about teenagers before going back to his booth.
Nathaniel walked up to the gatekeeper person. "U hav the right to step aside in the next 30 seconds. There is a nasty djinni in there tht ur boss called me to take care of."
The gatekeeper's eyes bulged. "Oh ur mr. Mandrake! Yes sir, sorry sir." he stepped to the side quickly and opened the gate.
I hid my surprise and walked through it first. We arrived at the white zoo van. Bart and queezle were already there in their normal forms.
I stopped in my tracks as another problem just hit me. "does anyone know how to drive?"

(yes and xeno has been ducted taped shut-his mouth of course)

I shrieked as we nearly hit the lampost. "U know what?! I'm taking over!" I grabbed Bart out of his seat and switched places with him. I hit the brakes then the gas. Very cautiously, I began to drive out of the zoo, ignoring some of the rude gestures tht the people shot at me. I shrugged my shoulders at them. What could I say? Hey I'm 15 years old and this is my first day of driving. Yeah like they would give me candy and treat me like I'm a queen for tht sentence.
A muffled thump sounded in the back. Xeno grunted and moved about.
"hey quit it bac there! Or else Bart is going to poo on u." I smiled as my threat took affect. We arrived at my father's warehouse about a few minutes later and unloaded the special package very delicately-not!

(rotfl)



I took my time trying to come up with a nice threat. "Well maybe we'll turn u into a chicken, or maybe torture u, or maybe- oh I know! Throw u into the Other World!"
Xeno paled at the last threat. "No please don't! I have money! U can-"
"Oh please," said queezle."We don't need money more than we need a bottle cap right now."
"Actually money would be nice," said kitty. "Since someone took my purse and spend all the money in it. Cough, cough, that girl over there who's glaring at me."
I changed my glare to an innocent look. "I was hungery and I needed the money for food. Also I donated some to charity."

"Oooh, why thank you. I had never thought about that before." I grinned and burst out laughing as Kitty's face took on a look of horror and hatred.
"DON'T YOU DARE!!! THAT'S A COACH PURSE U KNOW!!!!!! Very expensive and I bought it with my own money!!! Took my forever to save up."
"Can we please move on?" Queezle yawned. "Just give her back her purse and get this over with."
I sighed. "Please wait." I walked over to a crate and tug around. My hand touched on something like leather and I pulled. A gray and silver coach purse came out.
Kitty ran over to it and snatched it out of my hand. "oh my god! It's still in good shape!! I thought that…oh my!" kitty hugged it to her chest and snarled at me. "mine!" then she bounded off.
"Ur welcome." I called after her. Seesh, what is it with girls and purses these days. Well atle aster didnt find the im-
As cream ripped through the air. The kitty sent a frog like imp slamming to the floor. It hissed at her before disappearing.
I grinned. "Sorry about tht. Make sure u check the inside! We don't want any unfortunate surprises, now do we?"

(haha! Nat's back to his swelling face! And manner! )


I folded my hands neatly in front of me and smiled sweetly. "Let's put that matter behind us now. We hav more important matters to discuss."
Kitty scoffed. "Like my purse."
Nat just stared blankly ahead.
I walked over to Xeno and glared down at him. "Oh hey! We haven't forgotten about u. What? Dont give me that face. You know perfectly well that you enjoy our company."
Xeno actually whimpered, which was kinda odd for a guy of his age and built like a wrestler. "What are you going to do to me?" He asked in a peevish, pathetic voice.
I sighed. Forcing questions and the truth out of him wasn't going to be much of a challenge. "Well for starters, why don u tell us how long u have been working for my father and why."
"I-I n-new your f-father wh-when we-e were y-young." He stammered out.
"Without the stammering part." I added.
He swallowed hard and his adam's apple bobbed. "I've been working for ur father for at least two years now. I needed the money, u see."
"Were u planning on getting rid of me? Why?"
"Because u had a gift. Also ur father didn't want word to get out that he was the one tht killed your mother. U were the only one there that saw it happen. I'm surprised tht u didn't call the cops."
I snorted and an air of my normal flippancy came back into my voice. "Yeah like the cops will do anything. And even if they did, I doubt tht they could do much with all the demons under his command."
Nat grunted. "I could've helped." He was icing a bruise on his cheek.
"That's great. Why don't all the magicians come rushing to help? Why don't we start another World War? This time instead of calling it World War 3, why dont we call it the chronicles of the Demon War?"
Nat sat back and shrugged. "Just saying."
"My father had people all over London, probably the world as his associatives. I'm going to try and hunt them down. All of them. They're planning on starting a war, aren't they?" My last question was directed at xeno.
He nodded. "Yes. Please let me go. I don't know anything else! Please, ur father didn't tell me anything."
I nodded. I snapped my fingers and he disappeared. But really I just teleported him back to the zoo.
"So we don't have a lead," stated queezle. It was more of a statement than a question.
I nodded. "Yep."
"So then it was all for nothing?"
"At least we now know that if we don't stop them all, a war is going to break out. Trying to take over the world probably."
"so what do we do now," asked Barty.
I faced them all. "Well believe it or not. We're going to find my long lost boyfriend."
"excuse me," said kitty.
I glared at her. "His name is Alex Knight and he's a seer. He should be able to tell us where they are. And don't u go and have any ideas on stealing him." Alex had an uncanny look. He was impossibly gorgeous and a little unearthly too. I had seen enough girls swoon at the sight of him. We hadn't talked for a long time. A really long time.
"And where is he exactly," inquired Barty.
"Oh, just in Austria. He's touring the world u see. And he should be somewhere in Austria. Probably Vienna."

"how about we make a deal?" I said as casually as I could. My friends all knew that making a deal with me was like trying to catch a fish with one hand. It wasn't that I couldn't be trusted, it was that I could always get my way out of the deal with a loophole here or there. Or I made the deal bend the way I wanted it to. Of course, they didn't know that, yet.
Queezle narrowed her eyes with suspicion. "What kind of a deal?"
I shrugged. "I let you go after your service to me is finished. I'll let you go, I promise and I'll never call on you again."
Barty immediately shouted,"Yes!"
Queezle was however a little more cautious. Darn her.
"When our service is done to you, then you'll let us go? Like let us free?"
I nodded. A huge loophole for me and I hoped that they didn't see it. The deal was too sweet to just sweep aside. I had offered them freedom and that ought to mix their senses so they didn't pay attention to the loophole.
"A deal then?" I inquired.
"Yes. A deal," said Bart.
I smiled. "Wonderful then."
"Whoa wait a second!" Kitty shouted. "Did you just say Vienna? Now if I'm not mistaken, then thats like a thousand or so miles away!"
I nodded."And that's why we have these two to help us."
Nat looked like a fish with eyes popping out. "The ministry is going to kill me!! There's going to be paperwork stacked like a mountain on my desk when I get back! They'll wonder where I have gone!"
I put on a face of pity for him. "Well at least u can tell them tht u just saves the world from a demon war. But of course if u don't make it back to London, I can always email them ur grave's address. R.I.P." I smirked as nat's face turned ash white. "Now come Bart. Let's find Alex, er that is if he hasn't moved on already. "
Kitty smiled evilly. "Let's hope he did."
I glared at her while she sneered. I hoped onto Bart's back, while Nat and kitty rode on queezle in griffon form. Bart took a giant leap with his scaly dragon legs. Queezle followed behind closely.
"And we're off to see some of the most famous places in the world!" I called out. "Welcome to the demon bus everyone. Please fasten your seat belts and try not to fall off. People will be getting worried if all of a sudden teenagers began to fall out of the sky. Good day and please enjoy ur flight."

"Compared to me, he is."
"Not if u were a rat." I shot back.
"Hey," shouted queezle. "Can u keep it down up front! If a djinni or sphere or goodness knows what else sneaks up and shoots a detonation at me, and i go spiraling to the earth. Then im personally going to blame it all on u two and haunt u from my grave! Do u understand?!"
"Yes Madame." I said in a mocking tone.
Queezle growled in frustration and exasperation. "It's like I'm dealing with imps here."
I had suddenly another thought. "Can we change course and fly to Berlin instead? I just remembered that my half brother is also a seer. It's closer and I know where his address is. We still keep in touch."
Bart stopped short. "WHO IS IT GOING TO BE?!" He bellowed. "Alex or your brother?!"
"Half brother actually." I corrected. "And his name is Henry so I don't have to worry about u calling him names of things."
Queezle shrilled. "Fine!! Berlin it is! And if u change ur mind again, I swear-"
"Yeah u'll strangle me. Or burn me alive or eat me. Yeah we getting with the threats."I waved queezle's look of irritation aside like it was a speck of dust.

(no its ok. Don't worry u didn't burst my bubble. ^.^ I don't hav a half brother, so I want to make up one. And besides, how cool is it to hav a brother that's a seer!!! Lol. =D and I've never been to Berlin too. I just felt like making Bart and queezle fly a hundred miles or so. Good exercise u know. XD )

I gave her a disdainful look before crossing the threshold slowly. I knocked on the already open door. "Er, Henry? If you jump out at me, then I'm going to throttle your scrawny neck."
"Is it me or do you smell that?" Bart stuck his nose up.
Nat sniffed. "Smells like dried rosemary and salt."
Queezle snarled. Her lips curling up. "This doesn't look good."
We crept up the stairs slowly and as quietly as we could. The floorboards under us creaked in protest.
Kitty sneezed as a plume of dust rose from the handrail. "Dusty."
"Well did you expect a five star service with servants running at ur older?" I asked sarcastically.
We came up to a large room. The door was half open and steam or smoke was coming out of it.
I walked into the room and almost screamed. Henry was on his knees in a pentacle of salt and chalk. In the middle was a very scary looking demon. It had blood red skin with bulging green and blue veins. It was snarling at Henry and it wore nothing more than a loincloth.
Nat clapped a hand over kitty's mouth before she could scream at the sight of the demon.
Henry's eyes suddenly snapped open. "You are dismissed." The demon disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Oh hey sis!" Henry's eyes lid up like fireworks. "Long time no see!" He stepped out of the pentacle.
"You're like fourteen years old." I sputtered. "And ur summoning demons?!"
Nat sniffed. "I was about twelve when I summoned Bart."
"Sadly," mumbled bart.
I pursed my lips. "How many did u summon?"

"You reckless little-AAARGH!" I fumed at him.
He cocked his head at me. "Oh and you weren't reckless jumping into the fire and-"
"Yeah okay," I cut him off before he could say more. "We didn't come here for reviewing good times and sipping tea and eating scones. We need help. Do your seer powers or whatever still work?"
"As sharp as a knife…I think. But I hav to warn u tht the Older Place kinda sucked up some of it. So if I send u all the way to a ghost town or something. Don't come crying to me." he held up his hands.
"We'll take the chances."
"Whoa, bac up," said kitty. "You mean 'you.' I'm not taking the chances. If it's Paris or something, then I'm going. But if it's at the frickin' North Pole," Kitty did a click sound with her tongue. "I'm outa here. I'm not freezing my butt off for u."
Nat snorted. "Oh please, ditch us. Yes y don't u do tht."
"Find the rest of my father or your father's friends. Tell us where they r." I looked intently into his face. "Help me. U owe me tht much."
"Technically, I don't owe you anything. But I'll help u because I'm nice like tht and you're my cocky, nice, friendly half sister."
"Don't push it bud."
He sighed. "Fine. Follow me, and please try not to knock or break anything. The last time someone broke something, let's just say it wasn't pretty. Stupid afrit was on the loose and it had anger issues. Or mayb it was drunk. It was trapped in a beer bottle u know."
"Yeah ok buddy. Let's go."

"Oh I dare alright!" I sauntered into the room with just a little to much enthusiasm. I stopped short when I nearly slammed right into a porcelain vase. I scooted aside very gingerly. You never knew what was in the vases or containers in Henry's home. Heck, one time I "accidentally" opened one because I was curious. Well u know what they say, curiosity killed the cat. It just also happened to be Pandora's box. Yep, I was just like her. All curious and reckless, Pandora that is. Henry had to summon at least an army of djinni and afrits and whatnot to gather all of the sickness and misfortunes. The aftermath wasn't a pretty sight let me tell u tht.
I had no idea where the stupid thing was now, but I was also glad that it wasn't here. I was pretty sure that if it was, a certain girl named Kitty might just open it to take a peek.
The room was fairly small with little furnishing. A rug with a table and some chairs scattered randomly around it.
Kitty winkles her nose."This is where-"
"Okay kitty. Shush." I cut her off before she offended Henry. "Not everyone is a millionaire kitty."
"Yeah I can see that."
"And a snotty person."
Kitty shot me a death glare tht would've melted an ice berg (if there was one, which there isnt).
We sat around the table. Nat gave the crystal ball a dubious look tht said it all. Henry sat calmly down and placed the crystal ball in the center.
We waited patiently while Henry did his seer thingy. I had no clue how he did it. He tried explaining it to me once, but all I said after it was "Can you repeat that? But this time slower and speak English please?" he had given up on me with the loudest sigh of frustration and exasperation tht was possible.
"Okay," said Henry looking up. "Good news and bad news."
"Good news first," said Bart.
"I found ur friend. At least one of them."
"And the bad news?" I fidgeted with impatience.
He looked at us with a pityful expression. "Your destination, I'm afraid to say, is in…Alaska."

(oh thanks. XD , yeah my computer is kinda mixed up. It needs to be fixed but my dad said wait till next week. +.+ it took me at least half an hour to get it right. Stupid computer. ~.~ )

I ran a hand through my hair. "Am I susposed to capture him or…" I didn't even want to think about the other option.
Henry sat back looking a little too smug with himself. "Whatever u like. I'll gladly give the rest of the other people's whereabouts now."
I nodded absent mindedly. My mind was whirling at least a thousand miles an hour.
Henry started scribbling places on the piece of paper with a pen. "Ah, 'Tis wonderful don't u think?"
I furrowed my brows at him. He had always this uncanny nature to just jump into the medieval, Shakespearean way of speech whenever he wanted to. I had grown used to it over the years and found myself speaking and understanding it as if it was my second nature.
Bart and Henry engaged into a heavy conversation with the Shakespearean language.
Kitty fell asleep and Nat wandered about the room looking at all the vases and containers.
Oh man, I desperately wished tht Henry had put Pandora's box away. I looked away from the containers. Okay, so we're definately not going to kill him. I forbid tht. But what if we made something like a pack? I could reason with him to stop whatever he was doing. But how would-
"Is there a phone I can burrow in this house?" I asked.
"'Tis by the wall of slumber in thee's bedchamber," replied Henry.
I opened my mouth to say something sharp at him but thought better of it. "er, I thank thee."
Henry smiled. "Now that was-OI! HOLD!" Henry sprang out of his chair, nearly knocking the table over.
Nat dropped what looked like a small, sliver chest. My heart lurched into my mouth as I recongized it. Henry just barley caught it before it almost opened up.
He cradled Pandora's box in his arms like u would to a baby. "Oh my god. Oh my god." he started repeating it over again and again.
I relaxed visibly and walked out of the room to the bedroom. There I found it beside a wall on a table. I dialed the number that I was fixed firmly in my mind these past many years.
It rand four times before someone picked it up.
"Hello?"
My voice faltered. It was him. It had been over five years at least.
"Hello?" He said again. "If this is a prank call-"
"Alex?" My voice was above a whisper.
"Annie? Is that really you?"
I laughed slightly. "Yeah, it's me. How are you?"
"Could ask u the same thing. Fine, u could say. How's things going on over there?"
"Okay…I guess."
"What's wrong? U sound, sad. And I never hav seen or heard u sad before. Well except for tht time with the pizza incident."
I smiled as the memory flashed back. Then it disappeared as quickly as it had come. "Well, u remember how ur parents were working to start a demon war thingy with my dad?"
"I remember it like it was yesterday. Why?" Suspicion started creeping into his voice.
"Well I wanted to know if u were in on it too."
A dead silence.
"Remember when we were little and we played that game u made up. The one with the acting and strategy and everything?"
"Yeah." I had no idea where this was going.
"Shoot, look I hav to go right now. Plot five. Thats me. Remember tht." His line went dead.
I set the phone back in its charger. Plot five. I had hated tht plot and I had never used it. It was cruel and unfair. Plot five was this: making the other person ur servant by bending their will and turning their worst nightmares into reality.

"of course." He yawned again. "But you promised us our freedom."
I just couldn't keep the smug grin off of my face.
Henry's eyes bugged. "You didn't make a deal with my sister, did you?"
Queezle bristled with suspicion. "Why?"
I clapped my hands together with barely suppressed triumph. "Well I did say that I would release u when ur work for me was done, or something like tht right?"
Queezle snarled and Bart glared at me as understanding dawned on them.
"Yeah. I said tht I would free u when ur service to me was done. Ur not done yet." I batted my eyelashes innocently at them. "And isn't this more adventurous and more fun than lying about in the Other Place?"
Queezle howled with rage. Bart let our several long groans of displeasure.
Henry slapped his forehead. "Never make a deal with my half sis."
Bart growled. "Yeah thanks for telling me tht, now. I'll keep it in file for the future." he turned on his heels and stalked downstairs. "Meet me outside when ur done chatting like toddler imps."
Queezle followed him and gave me a last menacing scowl before trekking downstairs too.
I let my hands fall to my side, all triumph evaporating from me. "Ok. Let's go. Everyone please walk in a single file line to aboard the demon express. Thank u all for taking it."

(And thank u michaela. I had to speak the medieval language for a whole entire day at school as a dare. ^.^ it was so fun and a little annoying too when no one could understand me. I managed to make everyone confused! ^.^ tehehe…Mwahahahahahahaha)

(no its not weird at all. U also remind me of someone in china. She's my best friend and we keep in touch by emailing)

I wriggled around. Stupid ropes wouldn't snap. They were bound way too tight around me.
"You can't release them!" I shouted in anger. "They weren't yours to summon in the first place. Unless u gave them an amulet or something." he snarled at him. "Who the heck are u anyways?!" I demanded. Kitty crindged at my boldness.
"Me?" He laughed. "U can call me Rick."
I spat at him. I definately recongized him now. "Ur my father's vice president!"
He winked at me. "Got that right. And u must be Annie then." His eyes took on a death glint. "And u killed ur father."
I sniffed. "Possibly."
He smiled a very wicked one. "I thank u then. Because u hav now just done me a favor. ur father really was a bullheaded person. He wouldn't listen to any of the advice tht I had to give. So now that I'm the top one, I get to control everything that's going on. Including u and ur friend's fates."
I spat at him. "Don't even think about laying a finger on them."
"Or what? Besides I hav something that's going to change everything." He snapped his fingers and two afrits came in with-
My heart threatened to break free and my stomach sank. It was Alex. He gritted his teeth and shuffled in. One afrit had a spear poking his back and the other held a knife to his throat.
"Alex. Yes I do think tht u know him. Alex, would u please throw our dear visitors into the cellar and lock the door please." The vice president smiled warmly.
Some very colorful words began to form in my head.
Nat and kitty whimpered and Henry just dropped his head onto the ground.